The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)

Andrea Camilleri

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9781433202131: The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)

ISBN 10: 1433202131 ISBN 13: 9781433202131

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2007

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]

{Translated by Stephen Sartarelli}

[Read by Grover Gardner]

When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and occasional prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life, as well as Montalbano's, is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue.

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About the Author:

ANDREA CAMILLERI is the internationally bestselling author of the 'Inspector Montalbano' mystery series and several historical novels set in nineteenth-century Sicily. His books have been translated into eight languages. He lives in Rome.

STEPHEN SARTARELLI is an award-winning translator and poet. He lives in France.

From Publishers Weekly:

In his third Inspector Salvo Montalbano mystery to be made available in the U.S., Camilleri (The Shape of Water) displays all the storytelling skills that have made him an international bestseller. When gunfire from a Tunisian patrol boat kills a worker on an Italian fishing trawler, the worldly Sicilian police inspector knows that this is just the type of situation his overly ambitious second-in-command, Mimi Augello, will want to exploit. Meanwhile, Montalbano has to look into the stabbing death of a retiree in the elevator of the victim's apartment building. While the trawler incident appears to resolve itself, the elevator slaying gets more complex by the minute. Soon Montalbano is searching for the retiree's beautiful housekeeper (and sometimes prostitute) and her son. It's only when he finds the boy (the snack thief of the title) that Montalbano learns the true nature of the case, its relation to the trawler shooting and the danger it poses. Although warned to keep his distance, Montalbano, who can't deny his investigative instincts any more than he can refuse a hardy portion of sardines a beccafico, proceeds headlong into the thick of government corruption with a risky plan to set things right. Montalbano, despite his curmudgeonly exterior, has a depth to him that charms. Readers are sure to savor this engrossing, Mafia-free Sicilian mystery.
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